What's the difference between loadstone and lode?

Loadstone


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Lodestone

Example Sentences:

Lode


Definition:

  • (n.) A water course or way; a reach of water.
  • (n.) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 Turn left to follow the path, keeping Monk's Lode on your left.
  • (2) A 1971-72 study of the Nevada Carson River drainage system by the Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Interior, revealed substantial amounts of mercury from pre-1900 gold and silver milling operations of the Comstock Lode.
  • (3) Isolated in Ivory Coast: S. dabou (8,20:Z4,Z23,l,W), S. elokate (9,12:c:1,7), S. assinie (3,10:1,w:Z5), S. anna (13,23:Z35:e,n,Z16), S. mpouto (16:m,t:-), S. banco (28:r:1,7), S. abidjan (38:b:l,w); in Senegal: S. bignona (17:b:e,n,Z15), S. lode (17:r:1,2), S. derkle (52,e,h:1,7); in Tchad: S. moussoro (1,6,14,25:i:e,n,Z15), S. drogana (1,4,12,27:r,i:e,n,Z15); in Algeria: S. hydra (21:c:1,6); in Haute-Volta S. farakan (28:Z10:1,5); in Republique Centrafricaine: S. babili (28:Z35:1,7).
  • (4) The samples of 2 lode quartz and 4 sand quartz originated from different mines in Poland were used for the experiment.
  • (5) This valuable lode of research findings offers a basis for comparing the developmental neurobehavioral toxicity of lead across species and for assessing the validity of animal models of developmental neurotoxicity.
  • (6) Shrubs and trees are on your left; the reed-edged water of Wicken Lode is on your right – take care to stay on the paths.
  • (7) Gachapon machines are found all over Japan, but the mother lode is at Akihabara's Gachapon Kaikan where more than 450 machines are lined up inside a warehouse-like space.
  • (8) The sheer size of the haul – described by one official recently as a mother lode of intelligence – has slowed the flow of information, however.
  • (9) "OK, so Kilfenora is the home, the mother lode, for Father T**.
  • (10) It is understood that British computer forensics experts at GCHQ are on standby to help sift through what one US official described as "the mother lode of intelligence" to the Politico website.
  • (11) 2 After 450m follow the path round to the left, and then turn right across the footbridge of Monk's Lode.
  • (12) The A. have then lodeed for the correlation that should exist, in series of both sexes in France and Congo: a more hallow plantar arch = a stronger T.F.T.
  • (13) Each of us chooses to seek a different "mother lode," up a different stream.

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